Description
What happens to memory when it becomes architecture? This is the prompt for the Architecture of Memory, a seminar that investigates how memory practices and acts of architectural form-making both shape and challenge one another.
This analytical journey flows through multiple, interlocking scales: from the individual, with ancient mnemonic devices such as memory palaces; to the shared, with situated testimonies, where memoires are reconstructed within and through spatial models; to the collective, with the building of memorials, where narratives about the past are negotiated to be materialized in public spaces.
Students will be introduced to foundational practices in the field of spatial investigations, drawing substantially from methodologies developed by the London-based research group Forensic Architecture. The course will rely on foundational readings from memory studies, sociology, history, speculative fiction, and architecture theory. Along with readings and discussions, s